We use shifts in food Engel curves among the U.S. elderly to estimate the extent of Consumer Price Index (CPI) bias specific to this population. Over the last thirty years the share of total expenditure devoted to food has declined more rapidly for elderly-headed households than for other households. This decline is not explained by a more rapid increase in measured total expenditure for the el...

This paper investigates the relationships between stock market indices and four macroeconomics variables, namely crude oil price (COP), money supply (M2), industrial production (IP) and inflation rate (IR) in China and India. The period covers in this study is between January 1999 to January 2009. Using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test, the underlying series are tested as non-stationa...

This paper empirically examines the relationship between trading intensity and price in the US existing home markets. In particular, I have tested two recent theories, the search model by Wheaton (1990) and the "downpayment" model by Stein (1995). The search model predicts that trading volume should positively affect real home price, while the "downpayment" model predicts that, with liquidity c...

Purpose For Chinese companies that cross-list in A share and Hong Kong (H share) markets, the H price has been consistently lower than by an average of 85% recent years. This is puzzling because most institutional differences between two markets have eliminated since 2007. The purpose this study to explain puzzle difference A+H companies. Design/methodology/approach Using all firms period 2007–...

â â â  â â â  abstract â  using a structural var with block exogeneity, diagonality and identifying restrictions, this paper analyzes: first, the macroeconomic linkages among the oil price, u.s. output, interest rate, money supply, general price level and exchange rate and second, the relationships of the macroeconomic variables with the price indices of ten international nonfuel commodity grou...